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Well... "Seph is a language experiment for the slightly crazy lunatic" (README)

I respect his way of openly experimenting with such things. They are a great read, if only just for inspiration.

Ola's a super-smart dude and the language is well worth exploring––I learned a lot from playing with Ioke. One of the coolest parts of it is his experiments with translations––in a language with zero keywords and a very small core, creating user translations into (say) Hindi becomes extremely straightforward. There's a rarely-explored opportunity there to bring programming to non-English speakers around the world.

for what is worth, VBA has had keyword translations for decades, and I've actually seen people use SE..FINE SE.

Interestingly enough, ALGOL68 already supported localized keywords.

The problem is you need to translate all the core language, not only keywords, e.g. list map(root) fold(plus) -> elenco mappa(radice) ripiega(più).

Supporting localized keywords in a parser would be relatively straightforward and a much smaller job than translating the whole standard library in something intelligible, I believe.

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